The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-25

erage per cent.
The same fact Is demonstrated by
the records OF the National Temperance
Hospital in this city. and also the fact
that the most serious cases of ''col-
lapse" after severe operations. rs we'll
as in typhoid fever make m UGH bet
ter and quicker recovery without al
cohol than with il. The Woman's and
Childrcn's Hospital Of Chicago. under
DIR. Thompson, and of Philadelphia.
under Dr. French, demonstrate the
same facts.
These things being so, and they are
undeniable, IL Is too late TO claim ''that
whisky is generally regarded by medi-
| cal practitioners 10 be the lifc-sustain-
ing medicine" The freight of author
ity is against it. whatever may be true
of the number of physicians holding to
the old theory.
The author asks: "Whcre is tho war
rant. aside from Zelrs Encyclopedia.
for stating that alcohol Is not assinn-
Hated in the body?" Here are q few
| of the authorities:
DIR. Lionel Bealc +. II. s.. the emil
| nent microscopic, declares; "Alcohol
does not act as food, it C ,cs not nour-
ish the tissues; it may diminish waste
by altering the constituents and chem
ical properties of the fluids and solids.
1t cuts short the life of rapid-growing
cells, or causes them TO live more
slowly" That Is, it cannot repair or
build up tissues. and being destitute of
nitrogen, it can not increase nerve
force All il can do is to retard
changes in the cells. which really
amounts simply to hindcring vital
changes and keeping eBetc matter in
the system.
DR.. Thomas Sewall. of Columbia Col
legc, who has made n speciality OF the
study of the effects of alcoholic drinks
says: "Alcohol is poison ever at war
with mans nature; in all its forms and
degrees of strength it produces irrita-
ton of the stomach. No one
who INDUCES habitually in the use of
alcoholics, whether in the form of wine
or of more ardent spirits, possesses u
healthy stomach
The stomach is the laboratory of the
body, where substance is prepared for
assimilation with the various tissues of
the body; is it reasonable 20 suppose
that Il substance which "always pro-
duccs irritation of the stomach" thus
hindering or preventing the first step
toward assimilation, can itself "assim-
ilatc In the bodvP'
DR.. Smith, another I. X. S., declares
"Alcohol is not a food it interfcres
with alimentation. Every substance
that assimilatcs with the tissues under
goes in the body Il chemical or vital
change. to give force or become -
part of the organization. Now, there
is no proof that alcohol does undergo
this change. Even the "tinal Expert
mcnts' of Anstic, the great apostle
of the doctrine of assimilation of alco-
hol, result only in "may be-" He
says: IL am obliged to declare that the
chemical evidence is as yet INSULT
cient to give any complete explanation
of its exact manner of acting upon
the system; also, that when alcohol is
taken into the system the larger part
of it is cXcreted unchanged " His only
point made is the suppositiou that the
part whose unchanged excrction We
have not been able to trace may, by
its rapid absorption and especial pro-
clivity toward the nervous ccntcrs."
revive the nervous system and uphold
the powers of life until the body can
be supplied with its ordinary nutri-
ment in sufficient quantity to restore
the condition of healthy nutrition"
DIR Anstie's Stimulants and Narcot-
les, page 7l4.)
Thus his whole argument rests upon
the theory that alcohol is n nerve
stimulant, theory later investigations
have disproved and declared il to be
always and every where q narcotic.
instead Of stimulant. dcadening
nervous action, instead OF stimulating
it. For further light upon this subject
we refer our friend of Open Court to
Prof Palmer, of Michigan University.
Liebig is another strong tower OF
those who cling 20 the alcohol-as-
sanitation theory. Yet Licbig says
emphatically that "beer. wine and
spirits furnish no element capable of
entering into the composition of the
blood, muscular fiber, or any part
which is the vital principle" II they
furnish no element capable of enter
ing into the composition" of the
tissues of the body. there surely can
be no assimilation with them. Where
center is not can there be ciiumfer-
Signal.